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Teaching AI the Language of Life: Inside the Rise of Genomic Language Models

8 July 2026

Teaching AI the Language of Life: Inside the Rise of Genomic Language Models

Why researchers began treating DNA like a language, why the analogy works surprisingly well, and where it breaks. A tour through genomic language models: tokenization, training, the context-length problem, and the new architectures built for biology.

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A doctor shouldn't need an informatician to ask a question. AI data agents are changing that

21 May 2026

A doctor shouldn't need an informatician to ask a question. AI data agents are changing that

For the first time, domain experts can query their own data in plain language, no engineer in the middle. I built a genomic data agent on Microsoft Fabric and Copilot Studio that clinicians use right inside Teams.

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One Letter That Changes Everything: The Story of Sickle Cell Disease

13 May 2026

One Letter That Changes Everything: The Story of Sickle Cell Disease

How a single-letter change in the DNA causes sickle cell disease, why the mutation persists (a remarkable malaria trade-off), and how CRISPR gene editing is turning that one letter from a life sentence into something we may be able to correct.

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Finding the Needle in the Genomic Haystack

5 May 2026

Finding the Needle in the Genomic Haystack

How genomic medicine and machine learning models like AlphaMissense help identify disease-causing variants among millions of genetic changes.

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